Biography Ferdinand Kaufmann

The following is from Linda Chase:

My husband Jim recently found my great grandfather (Ferdinand Kaufmann) on your web site. I have 9 pictures of his hanging in my home that my Mother gave me. She has 3 in her home. My great grandfather adored my mother, and often took her with him to watch him paint his landscapes. His daughter Yvonne, is my mother's mother. I understand that he had a son that died. My mother told me he was a Baron from Bavaria, came to the US, and lost his money in the stock market.

He did paintings for a living, and my mother told me that he had people paying him $250 to paint a painting-this before he had even painted any of it! My mother's mothe
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